How to Protect Yourself From Obamacare

[Townsend]

There will be (are) fewer insurance companies.  Only the big insurance monopolies will be able to survive, but that's ok, because there will be fewer doctors too.  Under single payer, perhaps people will be able to see the government nurse?

[Townsend]

The Governors Opposing Obamacare: Bobby Jindal, Rick Perry, and More


http://www.thedailybeast.com/galleries/2012/07/10/the-governors-opposing-obamacare-bobby-jindal-rick-perry-and-more-photos.html#slide1

Texas governor and former candidate for the Republican presidential nomination Rick Perry said he was joining a "growing chorus" of governors when he put his foot down on Obamacare. Yet, as one of the country's most prominent Republican governors, Perry may be the choirmaster. So far, 11 governors have said that they will not implement key elements of the Affordable Care Act, including the Medicaid expansion and the creation of state insurance exchanges, in their states. Others have said that they're simply not fond of the health-care-reform law, or have stayed mum. Whether or not the governors will—or can—mount a crusade of any consequence against the law ruled constitutional by the Supreme Court remains to be seen.

The Daily Beast rounds up the (mostly) Republican rogues who want to flatline Obamacare.

So do they forget Oklahoma exists?  Not count Oklahoma?  Consider us part of TX?  Know our governor really doesn't matter?  Realize she doesn't understand? What?

[Hoss]

The Governors Opposing Obamacare: Bobby Jindal, Rick Perry, and More


http://www.thedailybeast.com/galleries/2012/07/10/the-governors-opposing-obamacare-bobby-jindal-rick-perry-and-more-photos.html#slide1

So do they forget Oklahoma exists?  Not count Oklahoma?  Consider us part of TX?  Know our governor really doesn't matter?  Realize she doesn't understand? What?

thought I read somewhere when asked that she hasn't decided what she will do yet.

[Townsend]

thought I read somewhere when asked that she hasn't decided what she will do yet.

Ah, she's flustered and confused.

[carltonplace]

Ah, she's flustered and confused.

Maybe she is waiting for Michelle Bachman to tell her what to do

[heironymouspasparagus]

The Governors Opposing Obamacare: Bobby Jindal, Rick Perry, and More

Just that simple fact lets any intelligent, thinking person know beyond any doubt that the Affordable Care Act was the right thing to do!
And if Fallin gets on board...well, that's just piling on...

[nathanm]

Just that simple fact lets any intelligent, thinking person know beyond any doubt that the Affordable Care Act was the right thing to do!

Let's not overstate the case. It wasn't the "right" thing to do. It's better than leaving millions of people without access to health care, and it's better than letting insurance companies continue to price gouge. (too bad that part doesn't extend to everybody in the industry) However, by no means was it a reasonable way of going about it. It was written to protect some of the biggest sleazeballs in our society. The story of taking the non-profit insurers for-profit is pretty much sickening. Once again, we are rewarding people whose only success was being smart enough to commit fraud.

[heironymouspasparagus]

Yeah, you are right - far from a complete 'right thing to do'.  It is a step in a direction we should have taken decades ago.  In my eternal optimism, I am hopeful that this will be a framework from which to work for improvement.

[Red Arrow]

I am hopeful that this will be a framework from which to work for improvement.

Still going for that Hope & Change thing are you?

[Hoss]

Still going for that Hope & Change thing are you?

Be better than the "Etch-A-Sketch" alternative.

[Red Arrow]

Be better than the "Etch-A-Sketch" alternative.

This is America, you are entitled to hold an incorrect opinion.

[Hoss]

This is America, you are entitled to hold an incorrect opinion.

As are you.   

[Red Arrow]

As are you.   

You've had more creative retorts.

[Hoss]

You've had more creative retorts.

Vacation is making me lazy.   

[Red Arrow]

Vacation is making me lazy.   

Get back to work.